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@j2bryson.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 12:51 PM

Why #AIRegulation is hard, and I don’t feel too bas about #volkswagen

#transparency #AIEthics #regulatoryCapture

Yet the Volkswagen defeat device is a whole other thing. According to Kirill Levchenko, a computer scientist at in automotive history."s the University of California-San Diego, it is "arguably the most complex The Volkswagen device was much harder to discover. While the Cadil-le defeat device could be detected relatively easily—-the emissions went up when the air conditioning went on—the Volkswagen fudge was far subtler. Indeed, the West Virginia University rescarchers did not even suspect intentional obfuscation. And while CARB and the PA did suspect a defeat device, they could not prove that one was at work. Doing so required identifying the computer code that implemented the deception, a small needle of code buried in a haystack of computer programs. Morcover, under U.S. copyright law, it is illegal for anyone but the manufacturers to access the code in their cars. Under section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, automobile companies can take legal action against anyone, including the owner of the automobile, who gets around the access restrictions protecting the firmware in each car no matter how legitimate their reason. The Electronic Frontier Foundation had to petition the librarian of Congress to gain legal access for researchers in this case, despite objections from automobile manufacturers.® And even with access to the firmware code-the machine-level instructions controlling the cars' de-vices—researchers had difficulty interpreting the code without documen-tation. Fortunately, the hobbyist community had accumulated sufficient leaked documents to assist in understanding the code and identifying the offending routines. In the end, once a lawsuit was initiated, subpoenas uncovered emails proving Volkswagen's knowing culpability.The New Goliaths How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation James Bessen Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS New Haven & London
@grolaw-me.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 3:00 PM

While the lower federal courts and state courts have enjoined, overruled, and overturned the Ultra Vires acts of a rogue executive branch-the SCOTUS is suborning the POTUS.
The courts are slow. Trump throws chaos into the mix daily!

#RegulatoryCapture
#Wealth1%Gets

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